Rush Limbaugh Closes First Hour With Dead Air — Rush Limbaugh closed the first hour of his radio show on his flagship station, WABC, with 1:03 of dead air Monday. — From WABC's online feed of the final commercial break of the first hour: — While advertisers have fled Limbaugh's show since …

Rush Scrubs ‘Slut’ Comment, Demand for Fluke Sex Tapes — RushLimbaugh.com appears to have removed parts of his radio transcripts from February 29 and March 1 in which he called Sandra Fluke a “slut” and demanded a sex tape as a thank you to taxpayers for subsidizing her birth control.

It's Always A Conspiracy: Derrick Bell Edition — Yesterday, the Breitbart empire stepped up to the plate, called their shot, swung, missed, hit themselves in the face with the bat, then took a triumphant trot around the bases as spectators looked on with piteous and mocking wonder.

How Would Santorum Do Without Gingrich? — One of the reasons to be skeptical that Rick Santorum could win the Republican nomination is that we now have a pretty good idea of how the vote will play out from state to state — and the coalition that he is building seems short of a majority.

Obama lobbying Dems over Keystone XL pipeline — President Barack Obama is intervening in a Senate fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline and personally lobbying Democrats to reject an amendment calling for its construction, according to several sources familiar with the talks.

Pat Robertson Says Marijuana Use Should be Legal — Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader — including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing — his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.

Joe the Plumber blows a gasket on CNN — Samuel Wurzelbacher, who on Thursday morning accused CNN of being like TMZ and trying to trap him with “gotcha questions,” explained to POLITICO immediately following the tense interview that he is “sick of the gossip and drama.”

U.S. Unemployment Up in February — Underemployment is 19.1%, up from 18.7% in January — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased to 9.1% in February from 8.6% in January and 8.5% in December. — The .5-percentage-point increase …

William Smith, the invisible candidate — William R. Smith is the invisible candidate. — No one has seen him; no one has heard him speak. Outside of his home county of Pike, there is probably no Democrat who could recognize him on sight. — Tuesday, the Waverly resident won …

International Slutty Women's Day: A Story in GIFs — The year was 2012. Women were basically just hanging out. — You know, doing lady stuff. — We'd gotten used to the fact that, for decades, people have been trying to tell us what to do. — That we should pay attention …

Mitt: Pay for Your Own Damn College! — And get off my lawn while you're at it. — Earlier this week, a pretty interesting and telling exchange took place at a Mitt Romney town hall meeting. A student asked Romney what he would do to make college more affordable for students who struggle to pay for it.

OMM done with JC Penney — The leader of a pro-family advocacy group says only time will tell whether JC Penney's decision to have a high-profile homosexual entertainer as its spokesperson was a good business decision. — Despite opposition from the American Family Association's advocacy …

U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers — Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing — The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.

Wind farms in Pacific Northwest paid to not produce — Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest — built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced — are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region's electricity grid …

Dogging Mitt Romney — I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter on the roof of the car. — Seamus, the dog-on-the-roof, has become a kind of political icon. You cannot go anywhere without running into him.

Op-Ed Contributor: Reforms for the New Upper Class — THERE'S been a lot of commentary from all sides about my recently published book, “Coming Apart,” which deals with the divergence between the professional and working classes in white America over the last half century.

Bob Dole: Romney Must Answer for Health Care Mandates — Mitt Romney's campaign sent out a short statement of support this morning from 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole, boosting Romney in Saturday's Kansas caucuses. — We thought we'd email Dole for some elaboration. He called back.

Baby's Death Renews Debate Over a Circumcision Ritual — Prosecutors are investigating the death of a newborn boy who died in September after contracting herpes through a controversial practice of ritual circumcision, reviving a debate in New York over safety and religious freedom.

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